I’ve been boycotting boingboing for a couple months now. Silly right? I’ve been meaning to post about it for a while, but I wanted to wait till the whole mess settled down and the internet wasn’t so crazy. Anyway! The boycott stems from when Xeni deleted a bunch of posts that mentioned Violet Blue. I know, stupid to boycott a pretty awesome site just because they deleted a bunch of posts about someone on the internet I don’t really care about anyway. Its really the principal of the thing that has me all pissed at boingboing. First, for the most part they are all for openness and accountability on the internet in general. They all support creative commons, OSS initiatives and publicly persecute anyone that stands in the way of free flow information (was going to post links to some posts, but that is silly right, this is a post about boycotting boingboing not supporting the site). And that’s why I won’t look at boingboing anymore. Xeni made a really poor decision to remove those posts, I feel it was hypocritical and an injustice to its readers. And it was stupid of the rest of the bloggers at the site to support her decision.

So I’m never reading it again, ever.